Environmental groups sue over LA rail terminal

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Enviornmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging plans to build the Southern California International Gateway railyard project . NRDC complained the project "violates the California Environmental Quality Act and the state and federal Civil Rights Acts, and will increase cancer rates, chances of children developing asthma, and add to chronic air pollution plaguing the region." “The SCIG project typifies environmental racism,” said David Pettit, senior attorney with NRDC. “This project can be built away from where people live and children go to school, but the City of Los Angeles wants to put it in a low-income minority neighbor...